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On April 3, 2018 5:37 PM, Tom Eastep <teas...@shorewall.net> wrote:

> ​​
> 
> On 04/03/2018 05:29 PM, colony.three--- via Shorewall-users wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to convert to IPV6 but there's a little problem with the
> > 
> > hosts file on the IPSec gateway.
> > 
> > shorewall6 doesn't like any combination of IP ::0.  As in:
> > 
> > vpn             eth0:::0
> > 
> > I typed out all the zeroes, used all colons, but I could not decrypt
> > 
> > what it wants.
> 
> As clearly described at
> 
> http://www.shorewall.org/configuration_file_basics.htm#idm429, IPv6
> 
> addresses must be enclosed in "[...]" in most contexts. This is a
> 
> ubiquitous *nix convention.
> 
> -Tom

Well search was not my friend in this case.

And, having run Linux exclusively for 22 years, the brackets are new to me.

Thanks.

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